Inspired by Blucey mentioning LA SWAT, I guess it's time for the usual "what was the worst game you've ever played?" question.

The aforementioned LA SWAT was a strong contender for the absolute worst when I had a Spectrum. My brother had bought it, and it was frankly a waste of the two quid charged for it. The graphics were truly primitive, a bug had diagonal shooting going wrong and it had the gameplay of a typical Atari 2600 effort.

But that is utter gaming heaven compared to what I discovered when I shifted online and got into emulation. As opined many times before,Sqij has to be the worst game ever seen on the Spectrum. You could put a gun to my head and I'd have created a better game in BASIC in about 15 minutes, than this sorry sluggish nano-effort. Famously one of the sh*ttest games ever made and rightfully ridiculed.

My controversial suggestion is Street Fighter 2. Not because the ZX Spectrum is apparently awful (I've never touched it), but because I've never liked the original for what it did to the arcade scene. It's a dismal thing to play, about ten million buttons to mash and you're just stuck in the same spot. I like my beat 'em ups to be scrolling through a world. It spawned about twenty million 'special' editions and my local arcades were full of, um, less-than-desirable people shoving their coins into the overrated thing.

That is different. I never played them but I assume being US Gold games that they are monochrome pieces of sh*t?

Left field choice: the last two levels of Combat School. The rest of the game is pretty good (if a bit buggy) but the instructor fight is the worst example of a fighting game and the combat mission is appalling.

I just wonder whether this game could have come across better had it been called Joe Blade 5, or Dinokink, or something. Rather than demolishing a superb franchise. So far my track record for the game has been: HATE, HATE, HATE, HATE, HATE, HATE, HATE, OK.

I'm almost determined to find some gameplay in there, something more than button mashing.

I belive choosing one worst game is as difficult as choosing best game ever. O can specially remember Macronic's ET, because it's also first game I ever player on my Spectrum, but if I spend 10 minutes thinking on it I can come with another 50 samples easily

Thank God we tend to remember only good games and forget about the bad ones.

There are hundreds of dreadful games on the Speccy. For me, Dick Tracy is the winner. Shameful programming and atrocious gameplay but it was a licensed product with money behind it. I see this was the programmer's only Spectrum game. Good. You'd get better value with a faulty Cascade 50 tape that throws up R Tape Loading Errors with every attempt to play those crappy games. I think one mag gave this 70% or something. Proof there was a bit of corruption still going on.